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https://www.businessinsider.com/r-camera-shows-vietnamese-suspects-aggressive-attack-on-kim-jong-nam-police-2017-10A new video shows the Vietnamese woman accused of killing Kim Jong Un's half-brother making an 'aggressive' attackhttps://www.businessinsider.com/r-camera-shows-vietnamese-suspects-aggressive-attack-on-kim-jong-nam-police-2017-10
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:10:00 -0400Rozanna Latiff
<p><img style="float:right;" src="https://static3.businessinsider.com/image/59dcd4aa92406c26768b48bc-813/kim jong nam airport.jpg" alt="Kim Jong Nam Airport.JPG" data-mce-source="FUJITV/via Reuters TV" data-mce-caption="A still image from a CCTV footage appears to show a man purported to be Kim Jong Nam (circled in red) talking to airport staff, after being accosted by a woman in a white shirt, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on February 13, 2017." /></p><p>KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Vietnamese woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea's leader was captured on camera making an "aggressive" attack on him, two days after a similar act on another person, a police investigator told a Malaysian court on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Doan Thi Huong, 28, is charged along with Siti Aisyah, an Indonesian woman, with killing Kim Jong Nam by smearing his face with VX, a chemical poison banned by the United Nations, at Kuala Lumpur airport on Feb. 13.</p>
<p>There was "a stark difference" in Huong's movements in two closed circuit television recordings made in the airport's third level departure hall, said police official Wan Azirul Nizam Che Wan Aziz.</p>
<p>The first recording on Feb. 11 showed Huong approach an unidentified member of the public from behind to wipe something on the person's face "in a soft manner", he said.</p>
<p>She then appeared to apologize, placing her hands together and bowing her head, before retreating slowly, added Wan Azirul, a member of the airport district's Criminal Investigations Department.</p>
<p>But a similar act carried out on Kim Jong Nam was "quite rough and seemed more like an attack," Wan Azirul said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>"For me, the act seemed aggressive. Other differences I saw were in her movements - compared to before, the accused Doan moved in a quick and rushed manner," he said, using Huong's first name.&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/59dccbcb92406c2c768b47d7-1500/kim jong-nam.jpg" alt="Kim Jong nam" data-mce-source="AP Photo/JoongAng Sunday via JoongAng Ilbo, Shin In-seop" data-mce-caption="In this photo taken Friday, June 4, 2010, Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, waves after his first-ever interview with South Korean media in Macau." />The women have pleaded not guilty, saying they thought they were involved in some sort of prank for a reality TV show. They face the death penalty if convicted. Chemical weapons expert Raja Subramaniam said degradation products of VX were found on Huong's fingernails but not on the rest of her hands.</p>
<p>Traces of VX were found on the clothes worn by both accused women, Subramaniam said in court last week.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Subramaniam also declared impossible a theory that the VX was created by combining together two non-poisonous chemicals, saying it would have required large amounts of heat in order to work.</p>
<p>Experts had earlier suggested the women had each been given a non-lethal substance that formed a deadly combination after being smeared on the victim's face.</p>
<p>Hisyam Teh, Huong's lawyer, argued during cross-examination that she could not have known that she was handling VX.</p>
<p>"No sane person, having been made aware that a liquid was VX, basically the deadliest of all nerve agents, would put out his hand for VX to get administered," he added.</p>
<p>The trial will resume on Wednesday.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-envoy-heart-attack-killed-kim-jong-nam-2017-3" >North Korean claims it was a heart attack, not a lethal nerve agent, that killed Kim Jong Nam</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:35:24 -0400Rozanna Latiff
<p><img style="float:right;" src="https://static5.businessinsider.com/image/597aa4065124c9f86a8a0901-450-300/trial-for-two-female-suspects-in-kim-jong-nam-killing-set-for-october.jpg" alt="FILE PHOTO: Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong (L) and Indonesian Siti Aishah are seen in this combination picture from undated handouts released by the Royal Malaysia Police to Reuters on February 19, 2017. Royal Malaysia Police/Handout via Reuters/File Photo" border="0" /></p><p>KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The trial of two women accused of killing the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader will begin on October 2, Malaysia's High Court said on Friday.</p>
<p>Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, from Vietnam, are charged with murdering Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur airport on Feb. 13 by smearing his face with VX, a chemical the United Nations describes as a weapon of mass destruction.</p>
<p>Both appeared in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, where the date for the trial was decided.</p>
<p>They could face the death penalty if convicted.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; writing by Praveen Menon; Editing by Neil Fullick; editing by XXXXX)</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-nam-killed-2017-2" >Kim Jong Un's half-brother has reportedly been killed in Malaysia</a></strong></p>
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Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:05:32 -0400
<p><img style="float:right;" src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/58eee9ac8af57828048b7f49-2400/ap17103077299305.jpg" alt="Siti Aisyah kim jong nam" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Vincent Thian" data-mce-caption="Indonesian suspect Siti Aisyah, center, arrested in the death of Kim Jong Nam, is escorted by police officers as she leaves at a court house in Sepang, Malaysia, Thursday, April 13, 2017." data-link="http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Malaysia-North-Korea/032cc780f1724670b24e48c810229e8a/3/0"></p><p>Kuala Lumpur (AFP) - Two women accused of assassinating the half-brother of North Korea's leader were taken to a Malaysian court in bulletproof vests on Thursday ahead of a murder trial that could see them hanged.</p>
<p>Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, from Vietnam, were taken to the Sepang magistrate's court located close to the airport where Kim Jong-Nam was fatally poisoned on February 13.</p>
<p>Prosecutors are expected to apply for the case to be transferred to an upper court, where the women would be tried for murder. If found guilty, they could face the death penalty, which is carried out by hanging in Malaysia.</p>
<p>Police accuse the pair of having wiped the nerve agent VX on Kim's face at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The poison is classified as a weapon of mass destruction and banned around the world.</p>
<p>Rival South Korea accuses the North of masterminding the death of Kim, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Pyongyang denies the accusation.</p>
<p>Some 100 police officers including masked special forces armed with assault rifles were deployed to secure the small court compound where the women were taken for Thursday's hearing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Police are still looking for four North Korean men who are suspected accomplices of the women. The four, however, are believed to have returned to Pyongyang.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Three other North Koreans earlier described as "persons of interest", including a diplomat based in Malaysia, have been allowed to return home.</p>
<p>The killing sparked a diplomatic crisis between Malaysia and North Korea which saw both countries banning each other's citizens from leaving and withdrawing their ambassadors.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The travel ban was lifted in late March after a deal was struck involving the return of Kim's body to Pyongyang.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-nam-murder-suspect-2017-2" >Suspect accused of killing Kim Jong-Nam claims to have been paid $90 for what she thought was a 'baby oil' prank</a></strong></p>
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